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  1. Preparations for Search by Joseph McElroy

    No longer available.

    What if the private detective you might pay to find someone long gone thinks to hire you, or money lent for him gets spent on home improvement;  or if relations among a group of friends  and lovers go on not so much too long as in new angles to  exchange  poignant energies even of ending? Is it literally some  chemistry we’re in or motion with its partial randomness?  

    Originally a late section of McElroy’s  1987 novel Women and Men but withdrawn just before publication, and first published in Formations in 1984, Preparations for Search is presented now, in slightly revised form, as a chapbook. 

    Preparations for Search by Joseph McElroy

    No longer available.

    What if the private detective you might pay to find someone long gone thinks to hire you, or money lent for him gets spent on home improvement;  or if relations among a group of friends  and lovers go on not so much too long as in new angles to  exchange  poignant energies even of ending? Is it literally some  chemistry we’re in or motion with its partial randomness?  

    Originally a late section of McElroy’s  1987 novel Women and Men but withdrawn just before publication, and first published in Formations in 1984, Preparations for Search is presented now, in slightly revised form, as a chapbook.